Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 26 October 2030 at 20:17.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2030 after 12 days on 10 November 2030 at 03:30.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1932".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 381 of Meeus index or 1334 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 30 minutes and it is 16 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 15 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 55 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠332.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠349.8°.
Moon is at perigee at 12:07 about 11 days since last apogee on 16 October 2030 at 13:21 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 13 November 2030 at 05:00 in ♊ Gemini.
This perigee Moon is 361 122 km (224 391 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 386 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 9 234 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
12 days after descending node on 15 October 2030 at 13:20 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 29 October 2030 at 03:24 in ♐ Sagittarius.
12 days since the last northern standstill on 16 October 2030 at 09:43 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.995° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-21.941° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 October 2030 at 20:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 10 November 2030 at 03:30 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov
